Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a White passenger, once the "White" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, and she helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Parks has received more than 17,253,021 page views. Her biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Rosa Parks is the 18th most popular social activist (down from 15th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from United States (down from 89th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Social Activist.

Rosa Parks is most famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.